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... Thomas Warton and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the ...
... Thomas Warton and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the ...
Pagina 142
... he has selected , some of which are of uncommon merit . We , indeed , occasionally find such vigour and such point , as might make us suppose that the generous aid of Johnson had been imparted to his friend . Mr. Thomas Warton made this ...
... he has selected , some of which are of uncommon merit . We , indeed , occasionally find such vigour and such point , as might make us suppose that the generous aid of Johnson had been imparted to his friend . Mr. Thomas Warton made this ...
Pagina 240
... Thomas Browne . With many of these , doubtless , Johnson was particularly conversant ; but I doubt whether he would ... Warton , and on Johnson's own confession to Miss Boothby ( Letters , p . 48 ) , that he wrote all those marked with the ...
... Thomas Browne . With many of these , doubtless , Johnson was particularly conversant ; but I doubt whether he would ... Warton , and on Johnson's own confession to Miss Boothby ( Letters , p . 48 ) , that he wrote all those marked with the ...
Pagina 256
... Thomas Warton , who obligingly furnished me with several of our common friend's letters , which he illustrated with notes . These I shall insert in their proper places . " DR . JOHNSON TO MR . WARTON . " ( London ) , 16 July , 1754 ...
... Thomas Warton , who obligingly furnished me with several of our common friend's letters , which he illustrated with notes . These I shall insert in their proper places . " DR . JOHNSON TO MR . WARTON . " ( London ) , 16 July , 1754 ...
Pagina 257
... Warton . " When Johnson came to Oxford in 1754 , the long Thomas vacation was beginning , and most people were leaving the place . This was the first time of his being there , after quitting the University . The next morning after his ...
... Warton . " When Johnson came to Oxford in 1754 , the long Thomas vacation was beginning , and most people were leaving the place . This was the first time of his being there , after quitting the University . The next morning after his ...
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Pagina 250 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Pagina 428 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Pagina 338 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Pagina 249 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Pagina 253 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Pagina 379 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Pagina 461 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?
Pagina 50 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Pagina 485 - As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner ; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.
Pagina 118 - Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible, the friendship of Dr. Johnson; whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared...